Step away from the green beer. That's no way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Not because St. Patrick's Day is a religious and cultural celebration, although it is. If you're thinking Irish, think pub. And if you're thinking pub, think brewpub. And if the brewpub tries to serve you a green beer, politely decline. This isn't Chicago and beer ain't a river. | March 14, 2013»Read Full Article

Late in playwright Jon Marans' "The Temperamentals," the lead character addresses the audience, challenging the notion that the gay liberation movement began with those now-legendary 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village bar.

"Before Stonewall," gay activist Harry Hay (Mark R. Neufang) tells us, "an even braver bunch of us stood up to the plate — before there even was a plate!" Led by Hay and his lover in Los Angeles, these brave pioneers called themselves the Mattachine Society. | March 8, 2014»Read Full Article